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EARL BARTHOLOMEW, OF WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR MAKING WIRE FENCE.

Application filed October 10, 1905.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EARL BARTHOLOMEW, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Vaukegan, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making W ire Fence, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that type or class of machines for making what is known as a square mesh fence, that is a fence having longitudinal or strand wires and vertical stay wires or pickets, and to the particular form of such fence in which the stay wires or pickets are attached to the strand wires by means of a separate tie wire coiled around the stay wire or picket and the strand wire, thereby securing the stay wires or pickets to the strand wires.

The objects of the invention are to improve the mechanism by which the stay wires or pickets are advanced, severed to be of the proper length, and carried down to overlie the longitudinal wires; to feed or advance the tie wires into position for the upper or advance end to project above the stay or picket wire and in proper relation to a twister or coiler by which the upper or advance end will be coiled around the stay wire or picket; to drop the stay wire with the ends of the tie wires coiled there on into position to overlie the longitudinal strand wires; to sever the tie wires after dropping the stay wires into position over the longitudinal or strand wires so as to furnish an end for each tie wire for winding or coiling around the horizontal strand wires; to furnish crimpers by means of which the stay wire. or picket will be crimped or bent on each side of each longitudinal or strand wire; to furnish crimpers by means of which the longitudinal or strand wires will be crimped or bent on each side of the stay wires or pickets; to intermittently advance the stay wires or pickets into. position, sever the advance portion of the body of the stay wire into a length to overlie the strand wires and force or carry the stay wires or pickets within a plurality of twisters or coilers by which the ends of the tie wires will be wound or coiled around the stay wire or picket; to intermittently advance and recede the tie wires and after the recession sever the tie wires to leave ends of proper length for winding around the longitudinal Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A11 2, 1910.

Serial No. 282,197.

or strand wires; to intermittently advance the longitudinal or strand wires at proper intervals for spacing the stay wires or pickets thereon and coiling the ends of the tie wires around the longitudinal or strand wires completing the attachment of the stay wires or pickets to the longitudinal or strand wires; to furnish a mechanism for crimping the stay wires or pickets on each side of each longitudinal or strand wire, and a mechanism for crimping the longitudinal or strand wires on each side of each stay wire or picket; to furnish a mechanism for feeding, severing, and placing in position within coilers the stay wires or pickets, mechanism for advancing and receding the tie wires and severing the tie wires of a proper length for coiling or winding around the stay wires or pickets and the longitudinal or strand wires; a mechanism for crimping the stay wires or pickets, and mechanism for crimping the longitudinal or strand wires; and means for advancing intermittently the longitudinal or strand wires; and to improve generally the several mechanisms entering into the machine as a whole, and by which are performed the various operations of feeding, severing and placing in position the stay wires or pickets, advancing and receding and severing the tie wires, winding or coiling the tie wires around the stay wires or pickets and the longitudinal or strand wires, crimping the stay wires or pickets, crimping the longitudinal or strand wires and feeding the stay wires, the tie wires and the longitudinal or strand wires.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a top or plan view of the machine of the invention; Fig. 2 a side elevation of the machine; Fig. 3 a side elevation of the machine on the opposite side to that shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 a longitudinal sectional elevation of the machine taken on line 4lt of Fig. 1; Fig. 4% a detail, showing a face view of one of the cams; Fig. 5 a similar view taken on line 55 of Fig. 1; Fig; 6 a cross sectional elevation taken on line 66 of Fig. 1; Fig. 7 a plan View taken on line 77 of Fig. t; Fig. 8 a detail partly in section of one of the twisters or coilers for winding or ceiling the ends of the tie wires around the stay wires or pickets; Fig. 9 a plan View taken on line 9-9 of Fig. 4; Fig.

a detail partly in section showing a twister or coiler encircling the marginal longitudinal or strand wires and the pusher for bending the end of the picket or stay wire in position to be caught by the twister or coiler; Fig. 11 an elevation partly in section showing the upper twisters or e'oilers and the tie wires dotted; Fig. 12 a similar view to Fig. 11 taken in the opposite direction to Fig. 11; Fig. 13 an elevation partly in section enlarged showing the mechanism for feeding the tie wires, coiling the end of the tie wires around the stay wire or picket, and coiling the end of the tie wire around the longitudinal or strand wire, and showing also the cutting devices for the tie wires; Fig. 14 an elevation of the bracket carrying the lower and upper crimper jaws or mem bers; Fig. 15 a top or plan view of the bracket of Fig. 14; Fig. 16 an end elevation of the bracket of Fig. 14; Fig. 17 a face view of one of the crimping drums showing the crimping arms and mechanism therefor; Fig. 18 a face View of the disk for the actuating bars of the crimping arms showing the rollers placed thereon contacting the cam surface; Fig. 19 a side elevation of one of the gears for securing the crimping bar in place; Fig. 20 a front view of the cam for operating the crimping bars and its support for securing to the side frame; Fig. 21 a side view of the same; Fig. 22 a plan view of the same; Fig. 23 a plan view of the lower feed wheels and mechanism for operating the same; Fig. 24 a plan view of the cam and connecting rods for operating the rack bars of the lower feed wheel mechanism; Fig. 25 a face view of the left side of the cam for operating the lower feed wheels; Fig. 26 a face view of the right side of the cam; Fig. 27 a cam for actuating the tie cutters; Fig. 28 a cam for operating the up per twister; Fig. 29 a cam for operating the lower twister; Fig. 30 a top view of the journal box of the upper twister; Fig. 31 a longitudinal sectional view of the same; Fig. 32 a longitudinal section of the lower coiler or twister; Fig. 33 a side view of the cam for operating the stay wire cutters; Fig. 34 a detail in elevation of the support and journal boxes for the shafts of the feed wheels for the stay or picket wire; Fig. 35 a plan view showing the driving shaft and the clutch therefor and the lever for operating the clutch, the driving shaft and clutch being broken out; Fig. 36 an end elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 35 with the lever arm of the clutch broken off Fig. 37 a plan view of the gearing and the ratchet and pawl connection between the gearing and the, shaft for driving one of the feed wheels of the stay or picket wire; Fig. 38 a longitudinal section of the parts shown in Fig. 37

with the shaft in full elevation, except at one end; Fig. 39 an edge elevation of the l rack and the support therefor and the gearing for driving the shaft of the feed wheel of the picket wire; Fig. 40 a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 39; Fig. 41 a top or plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 39; Fig. 42 a side elevation of the fixed and movable cutter and the operating means for the movable cutters, the gear having the cam being broken out; Fig. 43 a top or plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 42 with the cam gear broken out; Fig. 44 a cross section of the movable cutter and its support; Fig. 45 a face or end view of the fixed cutter; Fig. 46 an edge view of the movable cutter; Fig. 47 a side view of the movable cutter; Fig. 48 a plan view, showing a portion of a main or strand wire and a portion of a stay or cross wire, with the tie wire applied at the crossing of the main or strand wire and the stay or cross wire; and Fig. 49 a cross section of the parts shown in Fig. 43.

The machine in the construction shown has two companion side frames each consisting of a lower rail 1, an upper rail 2 and an intermediate rail 3 with the rails at one end joined together by a standard or upright 4, and joined together at the other end by a standard or upright 5; and, as shown, an intermediate standard or post 6 connects the lower rail and the intermediate rail 3 and a. series of standards or uprights the upper rail and the intermediate rail 3; but the form of the side frames can be changed so long as the side frames furnish a support for the mechanisms of the machine. The side frames at one end are connected together by a cross bar 8 of angle iron formation, and at the opposite end are connected together by a cross girder or hollow beam 9 extending from side frame to side frame as does the cross bar 8; and both the cross bar 8 and the hollow girder or beam 9 are secured by bolts or otherwise at their ends to the side frames.

A. main driving shaft 10 is located in the arrangement shown just above the lower cross rails of the side frame and is supported in suitable journal boxes or brackets 11 projecting from the side frames. The main shaft at one end has a driving pulley 12 over which runs a driving belt, not shown, driven from any suitable source of power. The driving pulley has cooperating therewith a clutch 13 slidable on the shaft 10 and movable back and forth by a lever 14 one end of which is pivoted to a support 14 extending out from the side frame, and the other end of which is pivoted to a bar 15 eX tending across the machine and pivotally connected with a lever 15" mounted on a pin or pivot 15 on the side frame so that by moving the arm or lever 15 the lever 14 can be swung so as to advance the clutch 13 into engagement with the driving pulley 12 or recede the clutch 13 and disengage the driv- 

